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and standard requirements will help us
operationally, and not specify and direct
the technical requirements.
We need to give industry more freedom
of action to come to us with solutions
that will deliver capabilities to help us
do that. We have to inform the require-
ments process through Soldier feedback
and demonstrations of capabilities,
and not rush into defining the require-
ment early on. We need to start with
an operational need and a warfighting
requirement. We will figure out the
technical specifications as we go, based
on demos and experimentation that
will help us refine the technical speci-
fications, so Maj. Gen. Bassett and the
technical community procure capabili-
ties that are more capable of meeting
those operational needs.
Lynch: What types of experimentation
and demonstration does the cross-
functional team plan? What have you
learned so far?
Gallagher: We’ve been experimenting at
a battalion-size formation, but moving
forward, we want to assess the scalabil-
ity of these capabilities to take it beyond
an infantry battalion by looking at other
types of maneuver formations such as the
Stryker brigades and armored brigades.
Our experimentation and demonstration
thus far have been focused on simplifying
the network and making it more usable
in a fast-paced, mobile, scalable opera-
tion. We are currently examining how we
can manage the boundaries within our
secure network to give us more flexibility
at the tactical edge. We’re also looking at
advanced networking waveforms, which
will allow us to conduct a mobile ad hoc
network for our battalion formations that
will operate in a variety of situations.
Additionally, we’re experimenting with
radio gateway devices, small aperture sat-
ellite capabilities and access to airborne
tactical data links. Our goal is to create
an ecosystem that will help our joint and
coalition interoperability at the lowest
tactical edge, while also experimenting
with capabilities that will simplify our
network. We need to make warfighting
more capable to execute through sim-
pler systems that allow the users to be
connected.
Lynch: How will program offices use the
experimentation efforts?
Bassett: One of the biggest changes now
that we have this early and aggressive
experimentation, with Soldiers involved
in the process, is that we’re able to get
feedback on the applicability of techni-
cal solutions before we settle on a formal
requirement. We’re starting with an idea
of a capability we’d like to deliver, or a
technology that the cross-functional team
has identified as particularly applicable,
rather than solidifying a requirement up
front. In the past, we’ve written formal
requirements only to discover a few years
later that they couldn’t be used within the
formation the way we envisioned.
We are using these experimentation
efforts to learn these lessons sooner, so
ON THE SAME PAGE
Secretary of the Army Dr. Mark T. Esper,
second from right, views the U.S . Army Tactical
Network Modernization Demo at Joint Base
Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, on March
19. From left are Col. Gregory Coile, Project
Manager for Tactical Network within PEO C3T;
Bassett; Maj. Gen. James J. Mingus, director
of the Mission Command Center of Excellence;
Esper; and Gallagher. “We are a team of
experts that has come together to represent the
Army’s interests,” said Gallagher. (U.S . Army
photo by Bridget Lynch, PEO C3T)
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